I also had this yesterday, which prompted me to leg it to the scope ready to pull the power (I image on a tripod, and meridian flips require care) only to find it hadn't moved a bit. No clear indication as to to what prompted it in the logs.

As IHOUJIN suggested, please check both the meridian flip setting in the imaging tab and in the mount tab. Are they both selected or is at least the one in the mount tab selected?

No, neither is selected. As it happens I should have checked one and had a tripod leg crash later that evening!

Hi!

Should have responded to that earlier. Same here, neither is/was selected (to the best of my knowledge).

Magnus

Neither checked.

Not sure if I can offer any solutions. But a tip, if you suspect an imminent crash, rather than legging it to ungracefully pull the plug, you can trigger an abort from within KStars.

Why are their two meridian flip settings? I was trying to test this and didn't know which one to use or if they are connected or not. Very ambiguous and confusing. I know that it did work once while capturing (and checking the box in the capture module).

Also, I thought that if I had tracked through the meridian and then checked the box after the fact that it would flip, but it didn't. Is this not a good idea? It don't thing is - I'm pretty sure I typed "I don't think this..." Argh! - would be considered un-commanded motion. I think it would be good if it worked this way.

It flips on its own indeed. However it flips well It did an unrequested flip for me during last two sessions.

The one in capture module is to flip when IN CAPTURE.

The one in mount module is to flip at any time the mount is tracking even when you're not capturing.

What can we do to make this more clear? some more description? tooltip ?

Tool tips are the best. Nobody reads manuals as you know Things are supposed to be plug and play and intuitive to operate.

But I believe there should only be one control or at least they are the same, just different access points - i.e. change one and the other changes too. But I don't see the need for more than one. If I were looking for a meridian flip control, I would NOT look in the capture pane, I would look in the mount pane. And of course one would expect it to not flip in the middle of a capture.

What confuses me is this: is there really need for two meridian flip settings? When in capture you're usually tracking as well, right? So does the mount perform a meridian flip when in capture and the capture setting is not ticked but the mount setting is? Won't simply ONE meridian flip setting suffice? If the last question can be answered with YES then I'd propose to remove the one in the capture setting completely.


Wouter

Hi!

I got another one now. I have set MF in capture module, and saved the sequence. THen running via Scheduler. It is set to do a MF at HA 0.30. At HA -01:24, it tries to flip. Mount does not flip of course.

Checkbox checked both in capture and mount module. 0.30. But what happens is an attempted flip at 01:24. Much much too early. I have no idea whatsoever of why it tries to flip.

Log attached.

Magnus